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Nemacolin Castle

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address: 100 Front St Brownsville PA USA 15417
  • Telephone Number: +1-724-785-6882
  • Official Website: [1]
• Overview

Nemacolin Castle, was built in the late 1700s by Jacob Bowman in Brownsville , Fayette County , Pennsylvania. The Castle is one of several large buildings of the 1850s still standing in western Pennsylvania, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The only people to live in the house itself were the Bowman family. Three generations lived there, with the first generation revolving around Jacob Bowman. He and his wife started building the first part of the structure some time around 1789 with a trading post and one room above.However, they soon found that they needed more room seeing that their family was growing,so they added on the main hallway. They had 9 children. When Jacob died in 1847, he left the house to his son Nelson. Nelson added the east wing of the house and the tower.He and his wife, Elizabeth, also upgraded the nursery from a colonial to a Victorian nursery. Nelson married late in his life and had 6 children, only two of whom survived to adulthood. When Nelson died in 1892, he left the house to Charles Bowman who lived there until his death with his wife Lelia. After Lelia died in 1959, her wish was that the house become a museum. The house is now maintained as a museum by the Brownsville Historical Society.